Baptism

Celena was baptized in November. Our church doesn't allow video or photographs during the baptism, so we tried to get a picture of Celena with all of us after the ceremony, but as you can imagine it didn't go well with a hungry baby and a 2 year old that had just sat through a church service. SO, I decided today that we would play "dress up" so I could get a picture of Celena in her pretty little christening gown. You can't really see the whole thing (because as you can imagine it's impossible to pose a 5 month old in attractive way to get a picture of the entire dress, I tried but she kept sticking her legs in the air!!). I decided I'd frame the dress in a shadow box and use it for decoration in her room - that's one way to get our money's worth out of it!

Baptism

Here are a couple pictures and a video clip from Casimiro's baptism Saturday night. There were 2 other kids baptized the same night (the random guy in the plaid shirt in the video is the other kids' dad). Cass was fussy during most of the church service and was crying while the other kids got baptized, but as soon as the priest held Cass, he got quiet and just gazed up at her. You can't really tell from this video, but he kept trying to grab her face. He also got to take his first communion - he isn't ready to eat the cracker yet, but they dabbed a little wine on his lips. It was really neat, he was really quiet during the whole communion and just took it all in. And of course, his mommy got a little teary-eyed. :)